Loved the pic of you there Beach, you make a great windows 7 poster guy lol j/k

lol like the google search 'brazilian women beach volley ball team' image search of course

I avoid searching anything with the word Brazilian while the wife's home. My marriage is exciting enough as is.

-Jenrick

I LOL'd at the minimised windows selection pic

Thanks for the insights Beach. I have just purchased a new laptop with Win 7 64 bit so I was very interested in your experiences and impressions.

Thanks for the article. It's interesting that you chose to disable UAC; I bet a lot of other users go the same route as you. Seems like UAC is a real attempt by MS to increase the security of their OS but it will be sabatoged by many users. We won't want to deal with the hassle after the bad habits we (myself included) developed from earlier Windows where running with restricted permissions was nearly impossible in a home environment.
I also work on mac and linux machines where the equivalent of UAC is effective (not perfect) and not really a hassle at all. Has it gotten to this acceptable level in W7 or is it still the nagging mother-in-law it was reputed to be in Vista?

I found it to just be a bit of a hassle whenever you wanted to run a download not approved by Microsoft. Or move .exe files around or access hidden directories. I'm comfortable leaving the protection down because I generally don't run .exe files downloaded off the internet unless I have a pretty good idea of their content. Does that mean I always know what's going on and will never get a virus? No..but I'm willing to live with the slight risk. I don't have any missile launch codes on my computer or anything..so I'm not too worried..

And you're right..it might be a bad habit..but I guess we've become conditioned to it.